Chapter 176

Chapter 176: Will of the Multitudes

At the instant the Black Abyss Sword came down, a transparent Barrier Formation appeared around the Devil Heart, and when the blade struck it, ripples spread across the Barrier Formation in layers.

When the first strike failed, Li Shuang did not hesitate, she swung a second and third time in quick succession.

Emperor Chen Yang and Emperor Chen Lie reacted at once.

A cold look flashed over Emperor Chen Yang’s face as he sneered: “Sword Sect Disciple! I had planned to deal with you later, but since you showed yourself, I will send you to the afterlife first!”

His chest heaved and his heart thudded. With a sharp crack, his clothes split apart, blood-red lines crawled over his skin, and the ordinary-looking middle-aged man turned, like the Three Great Devil Guards before him, into a demon-like monster.

Li Shuang’s expression tightened.

“My servant,” the Devil Heart spoke in a bewitching voice: “Take out the Sword Sect Disciple’s heart, and I will reward you.”

Emperor Chen Yang moved without pause. His hands turned to claws as he raked straight for Li Shuang.

His speed and strength were far beyond those of the Three Great Devil Guards.

Forced to dodge, Li Shuang’s face grew solemn. [His physical body alone can take on a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator.]

But only training the body and not the soul leaves a fatal weakness before someone who has mastered the Soul Method.

“Black Abyss,” she intoned, raising the Black Abyss Sword in front of her.

“Soul Severing!”

Light burst outward. Emperor Chen Yang’s eyes went blank for a heartbeat.

Li Shuang seized the opening and chopped down, but his body was too strong. Her blade barely broke his defense and could not wound him in any vital way.

Scarlet light flashed, and he shook off the daze. Staring at Li Shuang with a twisted grin, he shouted, “My son, why are you still standing there? Join me and strike together!”

Emperor Chen Lie seemed to wake from a dream. He answered and revealed a half-demon form of his own.

Frowning, Li Shuang slipped past them and hacked again toward the heart.

The Devil Heart kept slowly rising toward the sky.

She looked up.

Now a blood-red dome covered the whole imperial palace, and the Devil Heart was heading straight for it.

If the Devil Heart fully merged with the dome, the true Grand Bloodfiend Body-Refining Grand Array would appear.

[We must stop the Devil Heart from fusing with the blood dome.]

Li Shuang gritted her teeth and chopped twice more.

The Devil Heart spoke again, its tone edged with anger: “My servant, why have you not yet offered me her heart!”

Emperor Chen Yang and Emperor Chen Lie tensed and lunged at Li Shuang.

Just as they were about to reach her, a fireball tore through the air and blasted toward their faces.

Luo Ming Yue glared at them and shouted through clenched teeth: “Emperor Chen Yang, Emperor Chen Lie! You are emperors of the Mortal Realm. For your own selfish desires, will you ignore your nation and all living people?”

Emperor Chen Yang gave a cold laugh: “You disciples of great sects are born with amazing talent and have secret arts for everything. What do you know of our suffering?”

“First Senior Sister, there is nothing to say to men like this, destroy the heart!” a woman cried as sword light howled in from afar.

Sword light and voices arrived together. One after another, blades slammed into the Devil Heart’s Barrier Formation.

Liu Jun Cheng, Sui Jin, and Jiang Yi arrived one after another.

The Barrier Formation around the Devil Heart finally shook for a moment, but only for a moment. It still kept rising at a slow, steady pace.

Luo Ming Yue turned and slashed at the Barrier Formation too. With her joining in, the shield around the Devil Heart trembled even harder.

“No one will block my path!” Emperor Chen Yang roared. The heart in his chest pounded faster and faster, and then it suddenly exploded. A torrent of power rushed into his body.

In that instant, his strength reached the Divine Transformation Stage.

Divine Transformation Stage.

Everyone’s faces changed. No one could treat a Divine Transformation Stage expert lightly.

“Move aside!” Luo Ming Yue grit her teeth and met his claw with her sword.

She was at Nascent Soul Peak now, able to trade a few moves with someone at Divine Transformation Stage.

Liu Jun Cheng and the others, however, could not take part in a fight like this at all. Instead, it was Li Shuang who could still help Luo Ming Yue somewhat with the Soul Method.

While Luo Ming Yue held Emperor Chen Yang back, Emperor Chen Lie charged the others.

He was not at Divine Transformation, but he was also at Nascent Soul Peak. Though self-taught and unorthodox, he could not be handled easily.

The group was tied down, and the heart rose higher and higher.

Under the blood-red light, people in the imperial palace, the imperial city, and the capital all felt that something was wrong.

They looked up at the sky, their bodies shaking without control. Devil Path.

Is the Devil Path here again? They could see people fighting in the air.

That sword light.

Are those Sword Sect Disciples?

Have the Sword Sect Disciples come to protect them?

With the power of the Sword Sect, the Devil Path should be nothing to fear, right?

Countless people began to pray with all their hearts.

In the Hall of the National Preceptor, Liu An turned pale.

This was a battle on a terrifying level.

He was at Golden Core Stage too, but at his level, if he even got close, sword light and demonic qi would crush him to dust.

For a moment Liu An was stunned. [Is the gap between me and these Sword Sect Direct Disciples really this huge?]

Worse still, among their enemies stood someone at Divine Transformation Stage. Divine Transformation Stage could serve as a steward within the Six Sects. In small sects outside, that was the level of a Sect Master. In the world of Mortals, such a person was little different from a god.

And yet, in Chenrong Kingdom, a Divine Transformation Stage Devil Path expert had appeared.

The deeper one went in cultivation, the more unreachable each realm became from the next. Though Luo Ming Yue stood at Nascent Soul Peak, only a single step from Divine Transformation Stage, that one step was a vast chasm.

High in the air, Li Shuang’s eyes shifted.

In her mind, the Heaven and Earth Furnace stirred strangely.

Points of light appeared around the furnace.

She sent her divine sense to investigate.

A message formed: “Will of the Multitudes: the capital is shrouded in danger. The people are praying, hoping you will win. Because you lack the right method, this wish power will slowly fade.”

Her pupils tightened. She gathered the Will of the Multitudes and found that these wills could also be exchanged inside the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

Another line appeared: “Will of the Multitudes (special substance): it can only be used for what gave birth to it.”

Born for one cause, used only for that cause. It meant this power could be used only for this event.

If she did not use it, the Will of the Multitudes would fully disperse in one hour.

But for now, it was not enough.

It was far from enough.

Li Shuang looked to Liu Jun Cheng and the others and called out: “Senior Brother, Senior Sister, would you be willing to give me something?”

“Give you something?” they echoed, confused.

Asking for this at a time like this made no sense, but they did not hesitate and answered casually, “Whatever you need, Junior Sister, take it.”

Li Shuang nodded and asked the same promise from Luo Ming Yue.

Their replies were sincere.

At once, more lights bloomed in Li Shuang’s mind.

These were Wills of the Multitudes gathered by Luo Ming Yue and the others.

Li Shuang poured all the Will of the Multitudes into the furnace.

She wanted to exchange for only one thing: the destruction of the complete Grand Bloodfiend Body-Refining Grand Array.

Right now, the price was still short.

But the lights that stood for the Will of the Multitudes kept slowly increasing.